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Poll: Would YOU feel safe?

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EyeMWing

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The year is 1954. The place, Generic Rural American Town, USA. Your local high school's groundbreaking ceremony was last week. The building was constructed to accomodate enough students for years to come (That number would not be achieved for nearly 50 years). Due to a small crisis with a third world nation known as the "Soviet Union," the building was constructed with a nuclear fallout shelter beneath it.

Lets play a mind game, shall we? The soviets launch a strike. Like a dutiful American, you proceed to duck and cover - into that fallout shelter. On your way in, you notice this sign. Does this reassure you? Does this make you more anxious?

And lets assume that the same people that hung that sign are the ones that built the thing, just for simplicity's sake.






And if you can't see anything horribly wrong with that picture, you have issues. I snapped that at school today - it's the original placard from 1954.
 
Originally posted by: bootymac
That's not a whole lot of room
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It was in 1954, this is in bumfvck nowhere. And yeah, it's barely enough room to accomodate the potheads and the makeout couples when they skip class.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
The sign is 50 years old, I'd expect it to be rusty. What's the problem, that the capacity is only 195?
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Note that the sign is neither level, nor are the bolts anywhere near "straight"
 
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: notfred
The sign is 50 years old, I'd expect it to be rusty. What's the problem, that the capacity is only 195?
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Note that the sign is neither level, nor are the bolts anywhere near "straight"
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point a: 50 years is a long time for morons to yank on the sign, throw stuff at the sign, hit the sign, and other things which would make it non-level. Not to mention the picture was hardly taken dead-on straight, so it's hard to tell how non-level it is.

point b: The bolts may not be exactly straight, but notice how they are placed so they screw into the plaster, not the brick. That could explain part of it.

Other than that, I don't know what's wrong with it...
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: notfred
The sign is 50 years old, I'd expect it to be rusty. What's the problem, that the capacity is only 195?
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Note that the sign is neither level, nor are the bolts anywhere near "straight"
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point a: 50 years is a long time for morons to yank on the sign, throw stuff at the sign, hit the sign, and other things which would make it non-level. Not to mention the picture was hardly taken dead-on straight, so it's hard to tell how non-level it is.

point b: The bolts may not be exactly straight, but notice how they are placed so they screw into the plaster, not the brick. That could explain part of it.

Other than that, I don't know what's wrong with it...
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Point a: The mortar lines are level, it's easy enough to eyeball off those, even at this angle
Point b: DOH, I didn't even think about that.
 
wouldn't bother me. All you need is an underground bunker, and of course, some way to keep radioactive dust particles from covering you after the building above you is blown to smitherenes.

There are some videos on an archive site - they actually show US soldiers in bunkers near an atomic blast. "training and preparing the military for war in the nuclear age"
They also show them on ships in the pacific relatively close to the blast.

If someone wants the link to the videos, I'll be glad to look.
 
At least you have a fallout shelter. <oldman>Back in the day...when we had bomb drills, the siren would go off and then we would assume the position under our desk </oldman>.
 
Haha. I got a kick when I was studying in a small town school in Minnesota, and the history teacher asked me if the Soviet rockets are aimed at their town. I said 'definitely'. And added that KGB killed JFK. I will never forget the expression on her face.
 
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